Sudafrica
Also known as Republic of South Africa, RSA, SA, zaf, R.S.A.
stato dell'Africa meridionale
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South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa, covering over 1.2 million square kilometers with a population of more than 63 million people, bordered by several neighboring countries and coastlines along the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It matters as Africa's sixth-most populated country and serves as a significant regional center, with multiple capital cities—Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial)—reflecting its importance on the continent.
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- Capital
- Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town
- Population
- 63,100,945
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If you want to travel in southern Africa then South Africa is a good place to start. While you can fly into any country in southern Africa, most flights will route through South Africa anyway. South Africa is also a good place to get used to travelling in the region.
Although some rural parts of South Africa remain among the poorest and the least developed parts of the world and poverty in certain areas of townships can be appalling and squatter camps can grow overnight, progress is being made. The process of recovering from apartheid, which lasted almost 46 years, is quite slow. In fact, South Africa's United Nations Human Development Index, which was slowly improving in the final years of apartheid, has declined dramatically since 1996, largely attributed to the AIDS pandemic, but also due to maladministration and squandering of state resources which led to an increase in the poverty rate and ever-widening income disparity between rich and poor. South Africa boasts a well-developed state and privately funded infrastructure and keeps up to date with all the modern amenities and technologies. National quality standards of construction, roads, technologies, goods manufacture, medicine and hospitals, communications and IT, aeronautics, banking, brokerage and investment, beverage and food chain quality are on a par with the best worldwide. The government is stable, although corruption has become prevalent in certain areas such as immigration officials at land border posts deman…
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thumb|375px|A map showing the visa requirements of South Africa, with countries in green having visa-free access
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thumb|Red hartebeast in Addo Elephant National Park thumb|[[Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park, known for extraordinary beauty as well as rock paintings of the San people]] thumb|Visits to townships are an increasingly common tourist activity
Hundreds of thousands of visitors come to South Africa every year to see the country's many natural and cultural attractions. From wild elephants to stunning landscapes, cave paintings, colonial heritage and bustling townships, South Africa is an enchanting land of contradictions and great beauty.
Some of the best ways visitors can explore South Africa's natural scenic and cultural experiences, apart from private run enterprises, are provided by state-developed entities such as the various Provincial Park Boards and National Nature Reserves. Also available but less known by outsiders are government resorts mainly operated under the Forever Resorts brand for example. There are more than 20 of these resorts nationwide. They provide a mix of activities to be enjoyed by small or large groups of people. Activities such as thermal water spas, leisure, kids activities, hiking, camping, mountain biking and guided game viewing are all catered for. Accommodation available in these resorts is reasonably priced outside school holidays or long weekends and consists of a choice between, 3- or 4-star hotel, bungalows, cottages, thatched rondavels, caravan park and camping grounds, accommodation is priced per unit, therefore, making a six-sleeper bungalow or…
Article · Italiano
Il Sudafrica, ufficialmente Repubblica del Sudafrica (in afrikaans Republiek van Suid-Afrika; in inglese Republic of South Africa), è uno Stato indipendente dell’Africa australe. Si affaccia sull'oceano Atlantico a ovest e su quello Indiano a est.Il suo territorio occupa l'estremità meridionale dell'Africa e ospita, di conseguenza, il punto geografico più a sud del continente, capo Agulhas, che convenzionalmente segna la linea di confine tra i due oceani su cui il Paese s'affaccia.I confini terrestri sono, invece, da ovest a est, con Namibia (nord-ovest), Botswana e Zimbabwe (nord), Mozambico (nord-est) e lo eSwatini (est), mentre interamente ricompresa nel proprio territorio è l'enclave del Lesotho. Al Sudafrica appartengono altresì le Isole del Principe Edoardo, che si trovano a 1770 km sud-est di Port Elizabeth, a circa metà della distanza tra il continente e l’Antartide.È uno Stato culturalmente ed etnicamente vario: in esso si parlano 12 lingue ufficiali, delle quali due di provenienza europea, l’inglese, ivi portato dai coloni britannici, e l’afrikaans, evoluzione africana della lingua dei coloni olandesi del XVII secolo che ivi giunsero a seguito della scoperta delle terre australi da parte dei portoghesi. Per buona parte del XX secolo, dopo l’indipendenza formale dal Regno Unito, la politica dello Stato africano fu improntata a una rigida segregazione razziale detta apartheid (afrikaans per “separazione”) a causa della quale, in ragione delle continue violazioni dei diritti umani che tale linea di condotta comportò (la più internazionalmente nota delle quali fu la carcerazione per 27 anni dell’attivista Nelson Mandela), il Paese fu oggetto di una serie di sanzioni internazionali, fino ad arrivare al boicottaggio sportivo del Sudafrica da qualsiasi competizione sportiva e dall’esclusione dalle Olimpiadi.La situazione si normalizzò con il graduale superamento della segregazione alla fine del secolo e la successiva elezione a presidente di Nelson Mandela, che promosse l'adozione di una nuova costituzione e anche una nuova bandiera nazionale, entrambe adottate nel 1994. Il presidente in carica è Cyril Ramaphosa, eletto a febbraio 2018.
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